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"In November, that task force released a report calling for the legislation to address those problems.  The proposals would update the definition of child abuse, clarify who must report child abuse, increase penalties for failure to report and...

This survey of adverse childhood experiences was undertaken in 1277 students aged over 18 years from a representative sample of high schools and universities in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia....

"North Texas Children’s Advocacy Center’s in Fannin, Grayson, Dallas, Collin, Denton, Ellis, Kaufman, Navarro and Tarrant counties have joined together to raise awareness of child abuse during the month of April.  April is National...

Abstract OBJECTIVES: We investigated the relationship between parental incarceration history and young adult physical and mental health outcomes using Wave 1 and Wave 4 data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.......

The Children’s Center in Salt Lake City has been working with young children who have been exposed to trauma. Now, a four-year grant will evaluate which evidence-based practices work best to heal these children. Vonda Jump, senior research...

"As many as 1.5 million adults may have stumbled upon child sexual abuse on the internet, but more than half do not know how to report it, new research has warned. "A ComRes poll conducted for the Internet Watch Foundation found that 91 per cent of...

"The history is that there has been a long-running conflict between the state and the counties, which individually run child welfare programs and have fought hard against any further state authority. And from our discussions last week with the...

"The state of Georgia is expanding its war on child sex trafficking with a new campaign targeting the men who buy sex with children, aiming to make law enforcement’s message as loud as the massage parlor billboards on the interstate....

A blog post I shared after the holidays but since it is related to ACE's I am sharing it here after an encouragement to do so by Jane Stevens. Thank you Jane! ------------------------------ I am feeling tired after the holidays but overall, it was...

BAD NEWS SELLS. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers, based partly on data (ratings and circulation) and partly on the gut instincts of producers and editors. Wars, earthquakes, plagues, floods, fires, sick children, murdered spouses — the more suffering and mayhem, the more coverage. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are...

Wanted to share some of our success in Iceland with awareness and education on Child Sexual Abuse prevention.  We feel that we have a model that can easily be duplicated in other communities.  If anyone is interested in learning more please...

"The Internet Watch Foundation said 83% of those polled were worried about the websites, 73% by terrorist material and 68% by violent pornography. "Hate or suicide material and those encouraging eating disorders were also cited in the poll of 2,058...